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Why we need more trans and non-binary books for middle-grade readers

What middle-school students should know about gender diversity is currently a hot topic in Ontario. The mere mention of “gender identity” is one of the reasons the Conservative government removed the 2015 Health Curriculum, and ... Read More »

October 15, 2018

Obituary: John Arthur Rosenberg

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John Arthur Rosenberg May 20, 1949–September 29, 2018 Loving husband of Jeannine Rosenberg (35 years), brother of Ellen Rosenberg, father of Lara Brooks (m. James Brooks), grandfather of Jacob, Joshua, Jonathan, former spouse to Tanya ... Read More »

October 15, 2018

Waubgeshig Rice

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In Waubgeshig Rice’s novel, the fall of civilization marks a new dawn for an Indigenous community

October 9, 2018

Q&A: Canisia Lubrin speaks to Dionne Brand about her two new books, The Blue Clerk and Theory

By Q&Q Staff

Dionne Brand, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, member of the Order of Canada, and one of the country’s most respected and beloved writers, returns this ... Read More »

September 13, 2018

Merve Emre: working on a book about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helped illuminate the test’s seduction

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I never had much interest in knowing myself. As a project, it seemed like an idle pleasure, an undeserved indulgence. When I took my first personality test – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – as a ... Read More »

September 10, 2018

Lezlie Lowe: Why public bathrooms are actually highly politicized and exclusionary spaces

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You walk into a public bathroom. You pass the line of sinks, eyes ahead. You settle on your stall. Lock the door, hang your bag, check for toilet paper, seat yourself. You start to pee. ... Read More »

August 27, 2018

Staffing and funding controversies plague the half-century-old literary journal The Malahat Review

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For eight years, Iain Higgins, a professor in the University of Victoria’s English department, sat on the board for the prestigious literary journal The Malahat Review, where he also served as associate editor. But in ... Read More »

August 9, 2018

Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community

By Q&Q Staff

Do you live in a major urban centre? Take this short test. You are giving a reading from your latest book at your local bookstore, and you invite a friend who lives an hour’s travel ... Read More »

August 2, 2018

Claudia Dey

By Q&Q Staff

An unforgettable vision inspired Claudia Dey’s new novel, Heartbreaker

July 20, 2018

Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”

By Q&Q Staff

I have grappled with how to define myself for the majority of my life. I first came out as gay some years ago, but quickly learned that “gay” signaled a certain classed, raced, gendered, and ... Read More »

June 28, 2018

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Quill and Quire

Why we need more trans and non-binary books for middle-grade readers

Obituary: John Arthur Rosenberg

Waubgeshig Rice

Q&A: Canisia Lubrin speaks to Dionne Brand about her two new books, The Blue Clerk and Theory

Merve Emre: working on a book about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helped illuminate the test’s seduction

Lezlie Lowe: Why public bathrooms are actually highly politicized and exclusionary spaces

Staffing and funding controversies plague the half-century-old literary journal The Malahat Review

Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community

Claudia Dey

Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”

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